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' Patented May 30, I899. G. LREENSTIERNA.

TAG.

(Application filed Dec. 27, 1897.)

No. 626,l9|.

(No Mddel.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GUSTAF LIBERT REENSTIERNA, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, AS SIGNOR TO THE REENSTIERNA MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE,

RHODE ISLAND.

TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,191, dated May 30, 1899. Application filed December 27,1897. Serial No. 663,493. iNo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAF LIBERT REEN- STIERNA, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tags, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in tags for the purpose of readily securing the same to boxes, &c. by means of nails, tacks, or equivalent fastening devices attached to and forming part of such tag, as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described, reference :5 being had to the accompanying drawings,

wherein- Figure 1 represents a top plan view of the improved tag. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section on the line 2 2 shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 represents a bottom plan perspective View of the improved tag, and Fig. 4 represents a modified form of the improved tag.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

A in the drawings represents the tag, preferably made of paper-stock or suitable fibrous or textile material usually employed in tagmaking. Two or more of the edges or corners 0 of such tag-blank are turned over on the under side of the tag in the form of lips orcornerflaps A A, as shown in the drawings.

0 O are headed tacks projecting through the turned-over lips or corners A and hav- 3 5 ing their heads arranged between the under side of the tag-body and the turned-over lips. or corners A, as shown.

this is oftentimes inconvenient, as proper- In practice I prefer to cement or otherwise secure the overturned lips or corners to the under side of the tag, so as to hold the tacks firmly secured to the edges or corners of the tag. A

Heretofore tags had to be secured to'boxes, &c., by ,means of separate tacks or nails, and

sized tacks may not be readily at hand for such purpose. With my invention, as the tag is being provided with tacks or nails, it is at all times ready for attachment to boxes, &c., without the need of separate tacks or fastening devices, and thus time and labor are materially saved in attaching my ready-made tacked tags to boxes or similar receptacles.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is A blind or concealed fastener shipping-tag provided in the immediate vicintity of its several corners with drive-fasteners allot which are concealed by and at one face of the tag and project outwardly from and at the oppo site face of the tag, whereby the tag when secured upon an article conceals its own said fasteners and at the same time renders them inaccessible save by rupture of the tag.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 23d day of December, A. D. 1892'.

GUSTAF LIBE RT- REENSTIERNA.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, KARL A. ANDREN. 

